Before she was an actress onStep Upor a host onWorld of Dance,Jenna Dewantraveled the world as a backup dancer forJanet Jackson.
The star, whorecently separatedfrom husbandChanning Tatumafter nine years of marriage, revealed that she would receive many presents from Jackson, 52, when she was touring on theAll for YouTour in the early 2000s.
But one other gift, in particular, stood out for Dewan.
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“Like a pleasure chest. We all got it, all the dancers. But still, I was like, ‘What is this?’ I was mindblown,” Dewan said, adding, that she was still studying at the University of Southern California at the time.
“I was in college so I went from dorm life to being on private jets, like right away,” she remembered of being on Jackson’s dance troupe.
Most recently, on Sunday, Dewan and Jackson reunited at theBillboard Music Awardsin Las Vegas, where Dewan served as a presenter while Jackson performed and received the night’s prestigiousIcon Award.
“I went into [Janet’s] trailer, we had a love fest,” the mother of one shared. “Because Janet was my dream to work for and she’s mama. I was her kid, she called me her kid,” Dewan said, before Kimmel jokingly added: “She gave her kid vibrators? That’s weird.”
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Dewan recently told PEOPLE Now that Jackson“changed her life”after asking her to go on the road as a backup dancer.
“She is an artist, if not the artist, who changed the game for dancers growing up. There was before Janet and then there was after Janet,” she said. “The way she took care of her dancers and treated them on videos, it really became this real thing to be a part of.”
Back in October 2017, Dewan reunited with many of her former fellow backup dancers at Jackson’s Hollywood Bowl concert in Los Angeles. “Generations of Janet kids brought together…! Dancing for her was always way more than a job, it was being part of a legacy. I have been pinching myself all day being in a room years later dancing with these legends,” Dewan shared.
source: people.com
